Production

Details

Time Period: Contemporary

Duration: 10 minutes

Setting: A cemetery on Abel’s Hill, Martha’s Vineyard in December near midnight.

Features / Contains: Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes

Casting

4m, 2f

HAUTFLOTE– A playwright in his late forties. He writes beautiful plays everyone admires...ASPERA – A playwright in her early thirties. She writes fierce splendidly intelligent challenging plays, frequently with lesbian charactersBIFF – A playwright in his late thirties. Scruffy, bisexual, one success…HAPPY – A playwright in his late thirties. His plays were widely admired, then one big success and he’s become a Hollywood writer…OTTOLINE – A playwright in her fifties. African-American, genuinely greatly hugely influential experimentalist…FLATTY – A playwright in his late forties. Colossally rich. DING – A dead playwright wrapped in winding sheet.